Segmentation of petrographic images by integrating edge detection and region growing

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 817-831

  Zhou, Ye ^a   Starkey, John ^b   Mansinha, Lalu ^b  

^a SMART Technologies Inc   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Edge operator; Grain boundary detection; Mineral grain; Region labeling; Seed region

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

COLOR EDGE; LINUX; PIXELS;

PETROGRAPHY;

IMAGE PROCESSING; MINERALOGY; PETROGRAPHY; SEGMENTATION;

EID: 5144220039     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2004.05.002     Document Type: Article

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